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Bettina Renz

Professor of International Security, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Dr Bettina Renz is Professor of International Security at the School of Politics & IR. She obtained her MA and MSc in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and completed her PhD at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham in 2005. She has previously lectured at King's College London at the Royal Air Force College and was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham's European Research Institute.

Dr Renz has extensive experience in collaborating with networks of scholars both in the UK and internationally, as well as in knowledge-exchange with non-academic stakeholders and practitioners. During the academic year 2016/17 Professor Renz worked as a Senior Researcher at the University of Helsinki's Aleksanteri Institute on a project financed by the Finnish Prime Minister's Office, government's analysis, assessments and research activities fund. She spent time at the Canadian Forces College as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in spring 2020 and was a visiting professor at the Finnish National Defence University in the spring semester 2024.

Teaching Summary

Dr Renz's teaching interests are in the broad areas of international security and strategic studies. With a background in Russian studies her teaching centres on developments in contemporary Russia.… read more

Research Summary

Bettina Renz's major research expertise is Russian security and defence policy in the post-Cold war era. She has published widely on military reforms, civil-military relations and military operations… read more

Selected Publications

  • RENZ, B, 2024. Problems of Post-Communism.
  • RENZ, B, 2019. International Affairs. 95(4), 817-834
  • RENZ, B, 2018. Polity.
  • RENZ, B, 2016. Contemporary Politics. 22(3), 283-300

Dr Renz is keen to take on PhD students who are interested in any area of Russian foreign, defence and security policy as well as contemporary strategy and airpower.

Dr Renz's teaching interests are in the broad areas of international security and strategic studies. With a background in Russian studies her teaching centres on developments in contemporary Russia. Her teaching is informed by research carried out into contemporary Russian security and defence policy, previously involving regular research visits to Russia. Having taught defence studies at RAF Cranwell until her appointment at Nottingham in 2007 Dr Renz is also interested in contemporary war and strategy with a focus on the use of air power. Dr Renz is a graduate of the King's Institute for Learning and Teaching and is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She was awarded a Chancellor Award for her contribution to the quality of teaching at the 海角黑料 in 2012.

Current Research

Bettina Renz's major research expertise is Russian security and defence policy in the post-Cold war era. She has published widely on military reforms, civil-military relations and military operations other than war. Her latest monograph, 'Russia's Military Revival', was published with Polity in 2018. Professor Renz also has an active interest in contemporary war and strategy and in the role of airpower in modern conflict. She is currently completing a joint British Academy-funded project on Ukrainian military reforms with Dr Sarah Whitmore at Oxford Brookes University. The project investigates the importance of Ukraine's political and strategic context for the pursuit of military reforms.

  • RENZ, B, 2024. Problems of Post-Communism.
  • RENZ, B, 2024. . In: FORSSTROM, PENTTI, ed., Russia's War against Ukraine: Complexity of Contemporary Clausewitzian War Finnish National Defence University. 1-20
  • RENZ, B, 2023. Parameters. 53(4), 7-18
  • RENZ, B and WHITMORE, S, 2022. Available at: <https://voxukraine.org/en/ukraine-is-knocking-at-a-door-that-nobody-intends-to-open-nato-ukraine-defense-reform-cooperation-since-2014/>
  • SHAMIEV, K and RENZ, B, 2022. The security services. In: GILL, G, ed., Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society 2. 227-238
  • RENZ, B, 2022. The military. In: SLIDER, D WITH WEGREN, S, ed., Putin's Russia 8. Rowman & Littlefield. 405-426
  • RENZ, B, 2019. International Affairs. 95(4), 817-834
  • RENZ, B, 2018. Polity.
  • RENZ, B, 2018. . In: SAKWA, R; HALE, H AND WHITE, S, ed., Developments in Russian Politics 9 Macmillan. 180-191
  • RENZ, B, 2018. . In: WEGREN, SK, ed., Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain 7th. Rowman & Littelfield Publishers. 313-332
  • RENZ, B, 2017. Russian Analytical Digest. Available at: <http://www.css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/RAD196.pdf>
  • RENZ, B, 2016. Contemporary Politics. 22(3), 283-300
  • RENZ, B, 2016. Parameters. 46(2), 23-36
  • RENZ, B and SMITH, H, 2016.
  • RENZ, B and SMITH, H, 2016.
  • RENZ, B, 2015. Towards a new agenda? Studying airpower and war in the 21st century. In: PERSSON, G; VENDIL PALLIN, C AND JEPPSSON, T, ed., Military Thinking in the 21st Century The Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. 193-212
  • SINOVETS, P and RENZ, B, 2015. NATO Defence College Research Division.
  • RENZ, B, 2014. Survival: Global Politics and Strategy. 56(3), 61-84
  • RENZ, B and SULLIVAN, J, 2013. Europe-Asia Studies. 65(10), 1898-1911
  • RENZ, B. and SULLIVAN, J, 2013. East European Politics. 29(2), 135-151
  • RENZ, B. and THORNTON, R., 2012. Problems of Post-Communism. 59(1), 44-54
  • RENZ, B and SCHEIPERS, S, 2012. Defence Studies. 12(1), 17-43
  • SULLIVAN, J. and RENZ, B., 2012. East Asia. 29(4), 377-390
  • RENZ, B, 2011. The Security Services. In: GILL, G, ed., Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society Abingdon: Routledge.
  • RENZ, B, 2011. Civil-military relations and Russian military modernisation. In: NYGREN, B, VENDIL PALLIN C and MCDERMOTT, R, eds., The Russian Armed Forces in Transition: Economic, Geopolitical and Institutional Uncertainties Abingdon: Routledge.
  • RENZ, B., 2011. Small Wars & Insurgencies. 22(1), 55-77
  • RENZ, B, 2010. The Status and Treatment of Detainees in Russia's Chechen Campaigns. In: SCHEIPERS, S, ed., Prisoners in War Oxford University Press. 205-220
  • SULLIVAN, J. and RENZ, B., 2010. The Pacific Review. 23(2), 261-285
  • RENZ, B, 2010. Civil-Military Relations and the Security Apparatus. In: GALEOTTI, M, ed., The Politics of Security in Modern Russia Farnham, Ashgate. 51-68
  • RENZ, B, 2010. RUSI Journal. 155(1), 58-62
  • RENZ, B, 2007. World Defence Systems. 148-152
  • RENZ, B., 2006. Europe-Asia Studies. 58(6), 903-924
  • BACON, E., RENZ, B. and COOPER, J., 2006. Manchester University Press.
  • RENZ, B, 2006. Media-military relations in post-Soviet Russia: who is the watchdog?. In: WEBBER, S. and MATHERS, J., eds., Military and Society in Post-Soviet Russia Manchester University Press. 61-79
  • RENZ, B, 2006. Available at: <https://laender-analysen.de/russland-analysen/117/die-silowiki-in-der-russischen-politik-politische-strategie-oder-produkt-des-systems/>
  • RENZ, B, 2005. Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 18, 559-585
  • RENZ, B AND BACON, E, 2003. Return to the KGB? Force structure reform in Russia The World Today.

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